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Meadow Peak Rehabilitation

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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6084 South Summit Vista Boulevard,
Salt Lake City UT 84129

(385) 255-1105

78.26% estimated occupancy ¹

Meadow Peak Rehabilitation is just one of 26 nursing homes in Salt Lake City, Utah. This city has quite a few more choices compared to most cities in the country. This facility received an A- overall, which is very good rating. Indeed, we ranked this nursing home as the seventh best nursing home in Salt Lake City. As you will find below, this nursing home performed just as well in our category grades. We give this place two thumbs up!

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company

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Short-term Care Quality

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility received an impressive grade of A for short-term care. In determining our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

To add to its first-rate performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.113205 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing grade is based on numerous factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. With this grade, the nursing home completes its straight A report card. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. We were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Meadow Peak Rehabilitation Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 1.89% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are often the result of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 6.21% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 9.66% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 25.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term residents which were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 19.73% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 93.17% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 18.32% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 21.79% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 21.79% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Meadow Peak Rehabilitation, 6.71% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of care.